“The impact of upset losses on sentence lengths is larger for defendants if their cases are handled by judges who received their bachelor's degrees from the university with which the football team is affiliated.”
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In case you were going to pretend we have a legit criminal legal system today...um...judges sentence kids more harshly when their preferred football team loses.
They are harsher for *about a week*
Mostly harsher with Black kids.
Details: aeaweb.org/articles?id=10
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